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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801837001723 Format: Import Label: Orange Mountain Music Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Orange Mountain Music Release Date: June 20, 2006 Studio: Orange Mountain Music Sales Rank: 79476
Rating: - Finally this has been recorded!!
I was at the World Premiere for this opera - my first time to be in the Met Opera House, my first time to be at a Philip Glass premiere, in the first month after I moved to New York City. No better welcome ... Read More
Rating: - A long awaited Voyage
When this opera premiered in 1992 I made it a point to tape the Met broadcast off the air. Then I waited for a CD. Finally after so many years they recorded it. Shame on the Met for not doing it earlier. ... Read More
Rating: - operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty...
Finally on CD almost 15 years after its Met Opera premiere, The Voyage contains plenty of overwrought operatic tedium, but also some choral passages of surprising power and beauty.
Rating: - the Voyage.
I had heard this years ago and did not know a CD was available. It is typical Glass. Either you like him or you don't. I do. The recording was quite good.
Rating: - A pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass's most tedious music
Philip Glass's opera is the most tedious one for the listener that he has written since his first, "Einstein on the Beach." It lacks the beauty of some of his opera "Satyagraha," though it has the bombast of ... Read More
- Finally this has been recorded!!
- operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty...
- A pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass's most tedious music